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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 807, 25 July 1870, Page 2

We are glad to observe tnat at length there is a prospect of tardy justice being done to Walter Tricker —the Hon. Mr Johnston having, in the Legislative Council on the 15th inst., succeeded in carrying a resolution " That the depositions taken at the inquest on the body of Mr Rayner, the depositions taken before the Resident Magistrate at Wanganui, the evidence taken before tbe Supreme Court, and the evidence taken before the Commsssioners, be laid upon the table of the Council. ; ' The hon gentleman, in a masterly address, laid before the Council a full resume of the facts of the case, and contend-

ed that there was no evidence against Tricker except that of the halt-caste Hamilton, who gave two accounts of the transaction, directly contaadictory of each other, and which consequently could not both he true, though both might be false. On this according to the elementary principles of justice, Hamilton's evidence should have gone for nothing, and Tricker have been declared innocent, and discharged a free man. Further steps will be taken in the matter after the papers have been laid on the table.